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lserver virtual machine provides all local network services, e.g. dns, dhcp, router-proxy etc.. It also contains all users and files and provides user authentication on Linux and Windows.

LServerAdmin application is preinstalled in lserver virtual machine. It allows us to easily create users and configure all services.

We can run LServerAdmin application either locally on server PC, or from another PC on local network, or even through Internet from our home.

We will connect from a browser e.g. firefox. LServerAdmin is a console application and navigation on its menus is handled better from a keyboard than a mouse.

We can connect from server PC itself, if keyboard, mouse and monitor are available.

From server PC via browser

• We connect with username user on LXDE graphical environment.
• We start firefox
• From Bookmarks we select address http://loginserver
• We type our username and password ¹⁾
• We type lserver-admin and press ENTER. It will ask our password again

From server PC via terminal

• We connect with username user on LXDE graphical environment.
• We click on LServerAdmin icon on desktop.

We can also connect from any PC on local network.

We connect to a PC with our own account or if we don't have one yet, we connect as user teacher

• We open a browser and on address we type http://loginserver
• We type our username and password ²⁾
• We type lserver-admin and press ENTER. It will ask our password again

We can also connect via Internet from anywhere. We should know the internet address of the server and the external port of shellinabox.

For example if server internet address is myinternetaddress.com and external port is 14200 we connect as follow

• We open a browser and and on address we type http://myinternetaddress.com:14200
• We type our username and password ³⁾
• We type lserver-admin and press ENTER. It will ask our password again

After we quit LServerAdmin application we type exit or CTRL-D on the terminal to exit from shellinabox as well.

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